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breadth of tlie light stripes on the thorax, the more shar|)l>' (Idiiird 

 pale median stripe on the abdomen, and the presence of a distinct, 

 tapering, pale, longitudinal streak on each side of the latter, between 

 the median stripe and the lateral margin. 



Up to the present time T. kingsleyi has been received only from 

 Sierra Leone and the Sierra Leone Protectorate. The six specimens 

 in the Museum include five females from Port Lokkoh and Port 

 Lokkoh Creek, April and May, 1904 {Major F. Smith, D.S.O., 

 R.A.M.C), and one female from the vicinity of Bai walla. Sierra 

 Leone Protectorate, June, 1903 {Dr. H. F. Conyngham). Major 

 Smith's note on the specimens collected by him at Port Lokkoh 

 in April (the dry season in Sierra Leone) runs as follows : — • 

 " Numerous ; no other species about ; bit me severely in my house, 

 several hundi'cd yards from the water." 



Tabanus congoiensis, Ricardo. 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 8, Vol. I., p. 328 (1908). 



Plate VIIL, fig. 56. 



Tabanus congoiensis, Ricardo, has as yet been met with only 

 in the Congo Free State and Portuguese Congo. The locahties, etc., 

 of the seven females in the National Collection are as follows. — Congo 

 Free State : Tumba, Cataract Region, R. Congo, November 5th, 

 1903 {Drs. Button, Todd, and Christy) ; Wat hen, 1904 {the late Rev. 

 W. H. Bentley). Portuguese Congo : San Salvador, between August 

 and Octol)er, 1908 {Dr. 31. Gamble). 



It may be noted that Tabanus lemairei, Surcouf {Bulletin du 

 Museum Natiomd d'llistoire Naturelle, Annee 1908, No. 2, p. 123 

 (Paris, 1908), — which was described from a female from the Katanga 

 District of the Congo Free State, belonging to the Royal Belgian 

 Natural History Museum, — is very closely alhed to, if not identical 

 with, T. congoiensis, Ricardo. In T. lemairei, however, the first 

 joint of the antennae is stated to be clothed with white instead of 

 with black hair, as is the case in 7\ congoiensis. Should the 



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